whimsey

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Examples

• But if it calms you to play like this, I am ready to humour so ridiculous a whimsey.'

• I'm all right, I'm gettin' on all right,'an' then 'e went; seemed to go ower the whimsey an' back towards th' wood.

• Geoffrey Montfichet's reason for wishing to be known as the Scarlet Knight was no idle whimsey, as the others had guessed.

• The whole affair was the mere whimsey of his own freakish imagination.